The proximity of the Christmas and New Year festivities motivated the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) to demand that local governments apply measures to avoid meetings that could cause an increase in coronavirus cases.
The measures would go into Friday, December 17 to Monday, January 3.
What measures do they ask to apply?
- Permanent use of masks, social distancing, hand washing.
- A maximum capacity of 50% in convention centers for dinners, corporate lunches, reception rooms, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and the like, tolerance centers, with a mandatory two-dose vaccination certificate and compliance with biosecurity measures.
- 75% capacity in markets, supermarkets, with mandatory biosecurity measures.
- 75% capacity in shopping centers, religious centers, fairs, with presentation of a vaccination certificate with two doses from the age of 12 and compliance with biosecurity measures.
- Allow entry to the beaches with restricted hours, from 06:00 to 18:00.
- Prohibit events such as concerts, children’s passes, processions, novena, festivals of old years or burns, popular parties in public spaces.
- Ban the sale of alcohol in public spaces.
Encourage vaccination
- Use the mask properly and always.
- Maintain frequent hand washing.
- Do not stay in closed places with bad ventilation.
- Ask citizens to attend the vaccination points to inoculate themselves against COVID-19. (I)
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